கலததகயல தனமம / Myths in Kalithogai

The ancient Tamil literatures are called as Classical literatures (Sevvilakiyam). They are lyrically and conceptually well refined. The Tamil people founded Tamil Sangam to develop the language. Though, there were three Sangams in the Pandian country, only the last Sangam (Katai Sangam) literature is available to us in complete forms. Sangam literature is divided into Eighteen Greater Texts (Pathinen Melkanakku Noolgal) and Eighteen Lower Texts (Pathinen Keelkanakku Noolgal). The above works are categorized as Ten Idylls (Pattupattu) and Eight Anthologies (Ettuthogai). In this collection, the Eight Anthologies are a collection of poems sung by different poets who lived in different timelines. One of the Eight Anthologies is the Kalithogai. One can understand its optimistic nature from the epithet that the ‘learner is known’ from Kalithogai. This article studies on the use of Myth in the structure of Kalithogai, the songs of Kalithogai, the mythological messages, stories about gods, epic elements, ideological realizations of mythology, relationships created with mythology and mythological records unified into the fivefold landscapes on love, etc.